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by jaredhansen 9y ago
>I don't think they "were under positive selection", I think they still ARE. So many people like to think that humans evolved to our present state and then act like the process has stopped. The wording here echos that a b
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by jaredhansen 9y ago
Regarding the Rat Park experiment, Scott Alexander had a pretty thorough discussion here: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/25/against-rat-park/
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by jaredhansen 9y ago
>It kind of reinforces that traditional car makers are never going to offer anything revolutionary to the car market Oh come on. Not having to have your hands on the wheel, while driving at 65mph for three hours down a four lane divided
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by jaredhansen 9y ago
Do read the whole thing, but here's the quick summary of most important parts: [neural net] “nodes” are just weights stored in a computer’s memory. Calculating a dot product usually involves fetching a weight from memory, fetching the
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by jaredhansen 9y ago
It's the same thing. You start by talking to customers to get an idea of what to build, then you create a mockup of what you'll build and then show that to customers and iterate until there's demand - now you have your firs
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by jaredhansen 9y ago
>developers who come from an "html programming" background can now build scalable and enterprise grade applications without breaking a sweat. This is a popular misconception but inaccurate nonetheless. It may appear that way at
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by jaredhansen 9y ago
This is great news. Regarding the several comments along the lines of "there should be a way to pool resources across many companies to fight trolls", there are in fact several such orgs (beyond EFF, already mentioned below). The
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by jaredhansen 9y ago
>such that any request for equipment to help "save" people has to be in quotes. Your impression has then taken it too far - yes, there's a lot of drug war stuff, but USCG still does a tremendous amount of rescue work &#x2F
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by jaredhansen 9y ago
It's all in what you value. If, as a parent, it's more important to you to save time than have a good way to send signal your virtue to internet friends (you monster!), then you're on the right track.
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Nobody cares "which bank it's in" - but if a company has $1B in out-of-US cash not currently subject to US tax, and bringing it into the US will cost them 30% of it, they may (sensibly, in many cases) just elect to leave it s
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by jaredhansen 9y ago
>Effectively what you are saying is that venture capital funds (correctly) think that percentage of shares aren't very valuable when they are equal preference to the employees. That's not quite right - instead, he's implyi
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by jaredhansen 9y ago
Yes, exactly. And all evidence suggests that lobsters, to the debatable extent that they're capable of emotions, would be more than happy to eat us were they large enough to do so.
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by jaredhansen 9y ago
If you like this article you'll probably also like astronaut Scott Kelly's book Endurance: A Year in Space, a Lifetime of Discovery [1]. My wife got it for me as a christmas present and so far it's really enjoyable. [1] Ama
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by jaredhansen 9y ago
>I recently asked a friend whether he thought people were deterministic. He didn't think so (I don't either.) What do you think? It's the wrong question. People are deterministic , but that doesn't mean they're
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by jaredhansen 9y ago
What do you think of https://www.bridge.us (SaaS platform for immigration)? I haven't used them yet but I'm a fan of the team and the concept. We have sponsored a number of J and H visas for various people at Breezy, a
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by jaredhansen 9y ago
"The Treasury today announced new regulations on cryptocurrencies, citing a 2017 report showing that cryptocurrencies are often used by rogue regimes and terrorist states to evade sanctions..."
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by jaredhansen 9y ago
If people get one thing and only one from this thread, it should be this: the vast majority of popular work on BPD (e.g., Stop Walking on Eggshells , mentioned below, and "I hate you, don't leave me" , etc.) is based on res
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by jaredhansen 9y ago
This advice is pernicious and self-serving bullshit. You don't know the poster or his/her wife. You don't know the wife. You don't have anywhere near enough information (unless you think a BPD diagnosis or suspected diag
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by jaredhansen 9y ago
>Based on my readings, I understood that most psychiatrists think treatment is unlikely to work. It's very likely your sources are pretty stale. For several decades, yes, the prognosis for BPD was quite poor. But this is no longe
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by jaredhansen 9y ago
Different ones are treated differently. For BPD, at this point the pretty well-recognized standard is called Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectical_behavior_therapy
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by jaredhansen 9y ago
Fortunately, food purchased as a PR move tastes just as good and is just as nutritious as the same food purchased out of heartfelt philanthropy. We care about what people think because we care about what people do .
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by jaredhansen 9y ago
The best way to think of the tax code is as an enormous legacy codebase whose authors were largely unaware of one another, often working at cross purposes, and subject to an ever changing set of requirements -- which requirements, important
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by jaredhansen 9y ago
It's not deceptive at all -- and if it makes you feel better, it still works if you explicitly declare (preferably at a different time so as not to exacerbate their emotionally-triggered state) that you plan to use this technique. You
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I find that generally it helps, counterintuitively, to start with what the DBT[1] literature calls "validation" - reassuring the person that their fear makes perfect sense in light of their priors. You can call this "affirmin
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by jaredhansen 9y ago
>I wonder who they are It's a bit dated (2010), but Netflix has a highly engaging documentary[0] on exactly this question. [0] https://www.netflix.com/title/70129457
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by jaredhansen 9y ago
Of all the problems facing construction of "viable high speed rail" in the US (they already exist in many other places), I don't think Hyperloop competition is among ... the top 50. Practically anything could be "a cle
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by jaredhansen 9y ago
drop me a line. email in profile. I don't know if I can help at all, but will try. Don't give up. Don't give in, to despair or otherwise. There's a better world out there for you, it exists, and nobody can make it disapp
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by jaredhansen 9y ago
>Isn't yet another case that startup is trying to fix systematic screwup of law in the USA? Two thoughts: 1) "systematic screwup of law in the USA" is a pretty good description; another might be "massive market opport
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It's not "enough", but it really helps. It's highly correlated with a whole host of different positive life outcomes.[1] People argue over how important it is, and it's certainly not the only thing that matters, but
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by jaredhansen 9y ago
It's easy to Intend to "contribute towards fixing" any large problem resistant to change (specific actions do you intend to take, at what specific dates in the future? how will you measure the amount of contribution to "

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